Buckle-chafe



(No Model.)

I. JJBRINGHAM.

BUCKLE OHAFE.

No. 545,447. Patented Sept. 3, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEND J. BRINGHAM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE SEAMLESS LEATHER COMPANY, OF ILLINOIS.

BUCKLE-CHAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,447, dated September 3, 1895.

Application filed January 9, 1895. Serial No. 534,397. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckle-Chafes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improved buckle-chafe of that class in which the buckle is placed upon the end of the strap, with an extension of the strap under the buckle to prevent the buckle from chafing the surface on which it is placed and to form a bearing for the buckle.

The object of my invention is to produce economically a strong, simple, and convenient article, made without stitching, and adapted to be readily and securely put together. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 shows the blank out of which the buckle-chafe is made. Fig. 2 shows the straploop detached. Fig. 3 represents the blank after it has been slitted and expanded. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the completed article. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section of Fig. 4.

The blank A is formed of a piece of leather of suitable thickness, preferably larger at the rounded end, which is adapted to lie underneath the buckle. For this purpose scrapleather may be used. It is slitted longitudinally, as shown in Fig. 3, to. forma cavity a, the slit being made parallel with the sides of the leather but leaving the leather uncut at the edges, the slit extending to the transverse slit b. This transverse slit 6 opens into the cavity a. Two other transverse slits are made, as shown at c and d, opening also into the cavity, and the thickness of leather ebetween the slits c (1 may be either pressed down or a removed, so as to admit the seamless expanded loop f, which is fitted to be inserted in this chafe A through theopening b and through the loop f. It is thus tightly drawn in with the turned-under end in place, as shown in Fig. 5, and this holds the parts firmly in place, the end of the chafe being left underneath the buckle.

The chafe may be made complete and may be applied to any ordinary strap, to which it is fitted by simply drawing the strap firmly into place. It is useful upon trunk-straps, shawl-straps, and in similar places, as well as upon harnesses. It may be made and sold separately and applied to straps by trunk and harness makers or others.

I claim- 1. In combination with a strap and buckle thereon, a chafe therefor havinga transverse slit band a longitudinal slita extending from the slit 1) to the end of the chafe, the end of the strap being held within the longitudinal slit, substantially as described.

2. A buckle chafe A formed with transverse slits 12,0, d, and with the expanded slit a extending to the slit 6, a loop f, and a strap 9 having a buckle, said strap being threaded through the slit b, 0, d, and out through the slit a, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

F. J. BRINGHAM.

Witnesses:

' HENRY E. COOPER, J AMES M. SPEAE. 

